hello my friends we are about to make water kefir together so this is what it our it can look like
later and then we have here some here with the grains but i want to go ahead and show you like
like if you've never done it before um basically you may buy something like something on amazon
that looks kind of like this okay and so it's kind of like kombucha is what um water kefir is
so imagine that you just bought this and you go in and let's what do you do now
monica so we're gonna pop the grains in no we're not we're going to put them in here
don't put them in there put them in your jar that you're going to make your kefir in
okay sike we're going to put the sugar in here half a cup of sugar for a half a cup of grain
and with both of these that'll be a half cup we add spring water um it's important to do spring
water not chlorinated water yes like because that the chemicals can harm i just want to show them
a card for a second you can um you can pause the video and look at this card if you want to
if you need it okay all right so you dissolve the sugar in there and then we're also going to add
some molasses um it says to add two tablespoons to start it up i've already started up the grain
so i don't really need to add two tablespoons for the amount of grains that we're going but
i just wanted to show you guys so i'm going to add a little bit just to kind of feed my grains
a little because you can later on throughout the process you can add molasses you don't
have to add molasses you can just do straight sugar and if it'll be a little less potent
adding molasses will kind of like spice it up and kind of get the more bubbly stronger um
kefir instead of molasses you can also use sukanat which is basically sugar that has the
molasses still in it i might put links in the description for what they need um and these
are a half gallon um canning jars yes so we're gonna add the rest of our grains into the jar
and now that the sugar is dissolved we're just going to pour the sugar water
into our grains the grains eat the sugar and release all kinds of probiotics healthy stuff
how long does it take this now once
you um get it full you kind of fill it up you might want to leave a little space at the top
um you let this sit for 24 hours and you pop a coffee filter on there to keep any bugs and stuff
but you want it to breathe you want it to let the release the gases and things so we put a rubber in
and then you let this sit for 24 hours then you come back and 24 hours later um
you'll have this see this does has a little soup knot and it doesn't have molasses
but you can see bubbles coming up from the i don't know if you can actually did you see any bubbles
sometimes when you tap it you'll see i just saw a bubble see the bubbles going up
so what we're going to do is strain out
the grains carefully just pour this into a bowl or anything at all whatever you want just make sure
you're keeping the grains out you can you can leave a little bit of the juice in the
grains to kind of help the next batch out a little keep it going okay so that's even too
much grains but we're just we're going to pretend like it's the right amount
so you have this is your fermented sugar water and then you basically are going to pour all of this
into that okay so now we poured the kefir water after the first ferment into this jar and for
the second ferment you are going to add whatever flavor you want you can add juice you can add um
i can't think of anything else you would add but you could add fruit oh yes you can have fruit
um anything you don't have to add anything this is probably way more than um what's supposed to
be added but my kids like all the it helps my kids drink it so i'm going to add a little bit more so
how similar would you say this is to uh kombucha it tastes i i i wouldn't say it's hard to tell
the difference if you were to taste both you can't hardly tell the difference you can see how bubbly
this is this has been sitting on the counter for 24 hours so after you add the juice you put
the lid on and this sits for 24 hours next to your new batch of kefir which you're starting so you're
you can get in a cycle where you can get a batch every day which is so much faster than kombucha
and you can add it to smoothies you can drink it straight it's really good for you and you can see
how um bubbly when i open this you'll see like all the bubbles just come up so it's like nice
and powerful and bubbly and so if they don't have this could they use a like a mason jar or
yeah you can use any jar anything um it needs to be somewhat thick glass if you do too thin then
um it might break for you so i want to go ahead and put affiliate links in and even like um with
with the keep uh with um kefir grains and stuff if you look in the description i should have um
links in where they can be bought if you want to and if you use our link it should um
we should make a small commission no extra cost to you is there anything else and that's no that's
about it you just set this on the counter 24 hours and repeat the process and if you have any
questions please um put them below and hopefully we can answer them or someone can so thank you
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